Family Assessment: Days of Wine and Roses
Howard West
Kennesaw State University
Nursing 4412
June 30, 2015
Family Assessment: Days of Wine and Roses
The purpose of this paper is to provide a written analysis of the Clay family as observed from the film Days of Wine and Roses. The family processes will be evaluated using models that provide a framework for defining developmental stages in the family. After completing a thorough assessment of the family, a nursing diagnosis can be made to treat the family as a unit and expected outcomes and interventions can be put forth. There are multiple times in the movie where Joe, a central character in the movie, enters the healthcare system and is discharged only to have the precipitating …show more content…
In the film Days of Wine and Roses, Joe appears to be a healthy man estimated in his late twenties. He consumes alcohol on a daily basis, smokes cigarettes, and most likely has many versatile stressors from his job. Little is known about Joe’s family members or their hereditary conditions. The only information provided is that they are/were active in the film industry in Hollywood. It would be realistic to consider that Joe could not have been raised with consistent parenting and …show more content…
A community nurse would be in a good position to listen to pleas from the family and connect them to services like Alcoholics Anonymous, which Joe is already a member of, but there are also peer-to-peer services like Al-anon which specializes in care of the family that is being burdened by alcoholism (Latham, 2014).
Diagnosis and Expected Outcome
Because the problem deals with chronic alcoholism, caregiver role change, and changing economic status of the family, the NANDA diagnosis of interrupted family process will be used. The complete diagnosis is as follows: Interrupted family processes related to alcoholic mother as evidenced by the mother leaving the family.
The expected outcome is for family coping, expression of feelings, and demonstration of involvement in the problem-solving process (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2010).
Nursing
Howard West
Kennesaw State University
Nursing 4412
June 30, 2015
Family Assessment: Days of Wine and Roses
The purpose of this paper is to provide a written analysis of the Clay family as observed from the film Days of Wine and Roses. The family processes will be evaluated using models that provide a framework for defining developmental stages in the family. After completing a thorough assessment of the family, a nursing diagnosis can be made to treat the family as a unit and expected outcomes and interventions can be put forth. There are multiple times in the movie where Joe, a central character in the movie, enters the healthcare system and is discharged only to have the precipitating …show more content…
In the film Days of Wine and Roses, Joe appears to be a healthy man estimated in his late twenties. He consumes alcohol on a daily basis, smokes cigarettes, and most likely has many versatile stressors from his job. Little is known about Joe’s family members or their hereditary conditions. The only information provided is that they are/were active in the film industry in Hollywood. It would be realistic to consider that Joe could not have been raised with consistent parenting and …show more content…
A community nurse would be in a good position to listen to pleas from the family and connect them to services like Alcoholics Anonymous, which Joe is already a member of, but there are also peer-to-peer services like Al-anon which specializes in care of the family that is being burdened by alcoholism (Latham, 2014).
Diagnosis and Expected Outcome
Because the problem deals with chronic alcoholism, caregiver role change, and changing economic status of the family, the NANDA diagnosis of interrupted family process will be used. The complete diagnosis is as follows: Interrupted family processes related to alcoholic mother as evidenced by the mother leaving the family.
The expected outcome is for family coping, expression of feelings, and demonstration of involvement in the problem-solving process (Doenges, Moorhouse, & Murr, 2010).
Nursing